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14 Year Old Surgeon Wows Medical Professionals

A medical researcher in Jacksonville, Florida has developed a new stitching technique that could possibly transform surgical procedures around the world. Perhaps the most fascinating detail is the researcher is a 14-year-old high school freshman.
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Tony Hansberry II has created a new way to sew up hysterectomy patients in efforts to reduce the risks of post surgical complications and simplify the delicate procedure for less experienced surgeons, reports Jacksonville News. So far, the young man has only performed the surgery on dummies but has managed to fascinate the medical community enough to peak the interests of seasoned surgeons. On April 24 Hansberry presented his findings in the University of Florida’s medical auditorium packed with board-certified physicians, with established practices older than Hansberry, eager to see what medical phenomenon awaits. Read the rest of this entry »

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Possible cure for AIDS? Or medical fluke?

BERLIN (Nov. 12) – An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.
While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.

Dr. Gero Huetter said his 42-year-old patient, an American living in Berlin who was not identified, had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer shows signs of carrying the virus.

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Queen Latifah is lucky

Man, this heffa is one lucky girl..she gets paid millions to lose weight, and because of previous weight loss failures like Kirstie Alley ,  Jenny Criag is lowering their expectations for their new celebrity diet spokesperson Queen Latifah…according to TMZ… Read the rest of this entry »

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